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Los Angeles native. Currently the Show Producer on G4's TV show, "Web Soup," I am also a freelance screenwriter, fine arts journalist, and blogger. In my spare time I love getting lost in Amoeba Records, hiking Griffith Park, growing veggies in the community garden, taking pics, and going to Dodgers games.
November 2009 Archives
There is a new spot to eat in Los Feliz! Roger Gastman, can it be true?
Thank God! I hear you can grill at your very own table...and there is a funky blue robot.
http://tinyurl.com/ydutfc8
Thank God! I hear you can grill at your very own table...and there is a funky blue robot.
http://tinyurl.com/ydutfc8
New line of bags specifically designed to house your favorite, precious Apple gadgets...there are sleek bags that have sleeves for your MacBook and cute messengers for your iPhone.
check out the line here:
http://www.mulberry.com/#/storefront/c5657/4221/category/
via Neublack - thx Kellis
check out the line here:
http://www.mulberry.com/#/storefront/c5657/4221/category/
via Neublack - thx Kellis
Nice spoof video - Mark Logan, official spokesman of Twitter, recorded a video of himself responding to common user complaints about the popular service. Produced by Comedy.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S13qcY7fhMA&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S13qcY7fhMA&feature=player_embedded
I'm addicted. A friend shot me one of these vids this morning and I just LOVE their work.
This is the skinny on NoMas if you haven't heard of 'em...taken from their YouTube Channel description:
No Mas NYC: Sport and Culture Since 2004
**Here's a taste of the videos, but once you go there, subscribe to their YouTube Channel. It's got all the goods!
http://www.youtube.com/user/NoMasTV#p/u/0/_vUhSYLRw14
and this is AWESOME:
http://www.youtube.com/user/NoMasTV#p/u/2/hLVkvNA6u4c
This is the skinny on NoMas if you haven't heard of 'em...taken from their YouTube Channel description:
No Mas NYC: Sport and Culture Since 2004
In our apparel, artwork and media, No Mas celebrates the thrill of
victory and the ecstasy of defeat in equal measure, Our brand is rooted
in a deep love of the fight game in all its glorious and seamy
vicissitudes but No Mas finds inspiration across the sporting past and
present as we search for those places where sport intersects with
culture at large, always with an eye for the beautiful and
idiosyncratic nuances lost to the passage of time, and with special
affection for those doomed, dauntless stars who burned on the shortest
of wicks but gave us such vicarious joy while they dared to shine so
bright.
Visit http://www.NOMAS-NYC.com for a deeper look.
Visit http://www.NOMAS-NYC.com for a deeper look.
**Here's a taste of the videos, but once you go there, subscribe to their YouTube Channel. It's got all the goods!
http://www.youtube.com/user/NoMasTV#p/u/0/_vUhSYLRw14
and this is AWESOME:
http://www.youtube.com/user/NoMasTV#p/u/2/hLVkvNA6u4c
New show at Subliminal Projects Gallery in L.A....
WK's "HOW TO BLOW YOURSELF UP"
In How to Blow Yourself Up, WK Interact twists and inverts the fatalism of end-of-the-world prophecies, turning destruction into a matter of free will. "If you believe the world will end in 2012 and you can't do anything about it, maybe it's better to blow yourself up when you feel like it," says WK. To that end, he has turned objects of control and personal movement - skateboards and bicycles, as well as three-dimensional panels - into instruments of self-destruction, equipped with what appear to be pipe bombs and other menacing apparatuses.
In character with his oeuvre, WK captures the nonstop motion - both physical and psychic - of urbanism. In the past, he has used that kinetic graphic style to convey explosiveness, but in How to Blow Yourself Up he creates installations that burst with dimension and color. The glowing shades in his palette, however, are clearly not intended to brighten or beautify but to alert and alarm, grabbing attention the way a safety hazard sign would.
As always, WK's work has a tactile quality, in keeping with his name. While the interactivity of his street art stems from its incorporation into its surroundings, his gallery pieces stretch toward the viewer as if to say "I'll reach out and touch you if you reach out and touch me." The scale of his fine art pieces also contributes to their intimacy. On the streets, his images stretch towards infinity with only sky above; indoors, there are ceilings and corners and other confines to navigate, forcing him to work smaller. Says WK, "The more I reduce it, the more it becomes like a toy, something people will want to grab and move around."
If How to Blow Yourself Up seems like a sharp divergence from WK's street art, it is because the artist places so much emphasis on vesting context into his work. When he uses a patch of city as his medium, he first spends time investigating the location and contemplating its dynamic before assimilating his work into it. By contrast, when he is given blank gallery walls to work with, the combined effect of his pieces is akin to a cocoon - a self-contained environment.
"Artists appropriate their surroundings," says WK, who was born in France but has lived in New York for over 15 years. "Van Gogh had the peasants who lived in his village and the flowers in the garden outside the mental hospital where he stayed. For me, it's New York and everything about it that surrounds me - the nonstop energy, the movement, the grit, the noise. People love to put stories on top of art, to make it about something grand, but it's very simple. It's about an artist and a place."
SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS GALLERY
1331 W SUNSET BLVD
L.A. 90026
EXHIBITION DATES: NOVEMBER 7 - DECEMBER 5, 2009
I'll have more to come on this...
WK's "HOW TO BLOW YOURSELF UP"
In How to Blow Yourself Up, WK Interact twists and inverts the fatalism of end-of-the-world prophecies, turning destruction into a matter of free will. "If you believe the world will end in 2012 and you can't do anything about it, maybe it's better to blow yourself up when you feel like it," says WK. To that end, he has turned objects of control and personal movement - skateboards and bicycles, as well as three-dimensional panels - into instruments of self-destruction, equipped with what appear to be pipe bombs and other menacing apparatuses.
In character with his oeuvre, WK captures the nonstop motion - both physical and psychic - of urbanism. In the past, he has used that kinetic graphic style to convey explosiveness, but in How to Blow Yourself Up he creates installations that burst with dimension and color. The glowing shades in his palette, however, are clearly not intended to brighten or beautify but to alert and alarm, grabbing attention the way a safety hazard sign would.
As always, WK's work has a tactile quality, in keeping with his name. While the interactivity of his street art stems from its incorporation into its surroundings, his gallery pieces stretch toward the viewer as if to say "I'll reach out and touch you if you reach out and touch me." The scale of his fine art pieces also contributes to their intimacy. On the streets, his images stretch towards infinity with only sky above; indoors, there are ceilings and corners and other confines to navigate, forcing him to work smaller. Says WK, "The more I reduce it, the more it becomes like a toy, something people will want to grab and move around."
If How to Blow Yourself Up seems like a sharp divergence from WK's street art, it is because the artist places so much emphasis on vesting context into his work. When he uses a patch of city as his medium, he first spends time investigating the location and contemplating its dynamic before assimilating his work into it. By contrast, when he is given blank gallery walls to work with, the combined effect of his pieces is akin to a cocoon - a self-contained environment.
"Artists appropriate their surroundings," says WK, who was born in France but has lived in New York for over 15 years. "Van Gogh had the peasants who lived in his village and the flowers in the garden outside the mental hospital where he stayed. For me, it's New York and everything about it that surrounds me - the nonstop energy, the movement, the grit, the noise. People love to put stories on top of art, to make it about something grand, but it's very simple. It's about an artist and a place."
1331 W SUNSET BLVD
L.A. 90026
EXHIBITION DATES: NOVEMBER 7 - DECEMBER 5, 2009
I'll have more to come on this...
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